Quotes with not-so-great

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  • George Washington Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Ronald Reagan Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.
    Source: Inauguratie 1981
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Bernard Berenson Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Ronald Reagan Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Betty Williams Governments do not have the answers - indeed, quite the reversal. A lot of times, they not only do not have the answers, but they themselves are the problem. If we are committed to helping our world's children, then we must begin to create solutions from the bottom up.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.
    Source: A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Ronald Reagan Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Sarah Ban Breathnach Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.
    Sarah Ban Breathnach
    American author and philanthropist
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  • Bruce Nordstrom Grandpa didn't have any idea of customer service. But he wanted to make a living. Eventually, we saw it was not in our best interest to be arguing with customers.
    Bruce Nordstrom
    American businessman (1933 - )
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  • St. Francis of Assisi Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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  • George Herbert Grasp not at much, for fear thou losest all.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Nathaniel P. Willis Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.
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  • Edward F. Halifax Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Albert Einstein Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bryan Batt Gray is great. People think gray is a neutral, but I think it's such a moody, intense, dramatic and sexy color. It's very sleek.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian... Imagination is not required in any high degree.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Napoleon Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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